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Hooray for new link ups!! Michelle over at The American Resident has started a link up called "Where I live." It's not just for us silly expats either. It's about loving where you live and wanting to share it with the world. I'm a day late with my post but better late than never right?
This weeks prompt is "the dark sides of where you live or have lived, but the one condition of this linky is to put a positive spin on your posts. Feel free to vent about the bad stuff this week, but match each negative with a contrasting positive!" I know most people are shocked to find out that sometimes living in the land of chocolate and scary efficiency isn't all it's cracked up to be. There are pros and cons to living basically any where in the world and Switzerland is no exception. Con: Switzerland is EXPENSIVE! Let me throw some numbers at you. Compared to Canada the price of rent is 81% higher. The cost of groceries is 47% higher. The cost of eating out is…

When I was in London in July with my dad and Johnathan I found myself administering first aid to a gentleman outside of Kings Cross train station. There had been an accident that involved someone on a motorcycle and a pedestrian. We heard a crash and we turned, we had just crossed the street. People came to the aid of the gentleman on the motorcycle very quickly but the pedestrian had wandered off. I remember throwing my back pack at my dad and digging out my Wilderness Wipes stating bluntly, "I know how to help!"And off I ran. He hadn't made it far and a nice young man with a bow tie (the weird the things you remember) had some cloth napkins and had gotten him to take a seat in front of the Burger King.
There was so much blood. I will spare the gory details but lets just say there was missing flesh on his leg where flesh should be. Myself and two other people we able to administer just enough first aid while waiting for the ambulance. I was careful not to touch him be…

I joined roller derby because I was lost. I didn't have anything that was just mine. I didn't have anything that connected with me and that made me super proud of myself. I in my mid 20's and wanted more out of life and I wanted a challenge. I needed a challenge. Roller derby found me when I needed it most. It broke me down in some of the most amazing and humbling ways but in turn it built me back up in to a much better person. Derby made me a better wife, a better friend (despite all the times I couldn't do things because of derby), a better employee, a better daughter and a better advocate for myself. Roller derby drew a line through my life, I was consistently caught between giving up completely and seeing how much more I could take.
Turns out I can take a lot.
I retired a year ago.
8.5 years of derby came to an end one night last September during my teams Annual General Meeting. I was surrounded by my beloved team mates. My long suffering derby widow/husband and…